BREAKING: Residents in almost 90 suburbs across Victoria are being urged to boil water due to electrical damage caused by wild storms.
after a cold front brought damaging gusts through the state.
The water contamination has triggered panic-buying. A woman told radio station 3AW that customers at a supermarket in Doreen were stocking up on water. "It was like the toilet paper," she said. "It was as busy as Christmas. Some people were running ... just boil a kettle.
The wild weather brought a tree down on the corner of Spencer and Hawke streets in Melbourne's north.Meanwhile, United Energy, which provides electricity to Melbourne's inner south-east and the Mornington Peninsula had more than 40,000 properties without power, more than 2000 of which were still without power early on Friday morning.What Melbourne's east looked like on the VicEmergency app just before 10pm on Thursday night.
On Friday, Premier Daniel Andrews said the Department of Health and Human Services will urgently update its advice to allow for affected residents to seek help during the power outage and storm damage.
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